Richard Chichester

1424 - 1496  (72 years)

• Name	Richard Chichester
  Birth	23 Feb 1424	of Raleigh in Pilton, Devon, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Dec 1496  [2, 3]
  Alternate death	25 Dec 1498  [1]
  Burial	Pilton, Devon, England   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I8019	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	John Chichester,   b. 1386, of Raleigh in Pilton, Devon, England d. 14 Dec 1437 (Age 51 years)
  Mother	Alice Wotton,   b. of Widworthy, Devon, England d. Bef 14 Dec 1437
  Marriage	Bef 1424  [1, 4, 5, 6]
  Family ID	F4632	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Keynes,   b. of Winkleigh, Devon, England
  Children	+ 1. Nicholas Chichester,   b. Abt 1452   d. Bef 25 Dec 1496 (Age ~ 44 years)
  Family ID	F4628	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Sep 2015

  
  

• Notes

  Sheriff of Devon 1463, 1468, 1474. His monument in Pilton church gives his death date as "24th of December 1498", but his IPM gives it as 25 Dec 1496.

  
  

• Sources

  [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S3784] History of the Family of Chichester, from A. D. 1086-1870 by Alexander Palmer Bruce Chichester. London: J. C. Hotton, 1871. [S699] The Visitations of the County of Devon, Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620, with additions by J. L. Vivian. Devon: 1895. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler. [S3784] History of the Family of Chichester, from A. D. 1086-1870 by Alexander Palmer Bruce Chichester. London: J. C. Hotton, 1871., says "in about 1424". [S413] Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson.